Grade 4 2023/24

 I hope everyone had an enjoyable Fall break.  Over the past 2 short weeks the grade 4 students, -finished our Wishtree novel and wrote a book review -wrote poems created art for for remembrance day -researched peacekeeping -worked on editing skills with our suspense stories -learned about natural resources and products or uses of each.  We also talked about renewable and non-renewable resources. -we are learning about the Fibonacci sequence by looking for patterns in numbers and nature, explaining the pattern, drawing the pattern -we are working with money and a shopping task to practice adding and subtracting decimals -we started the book "The Wild Robot"  -we went to Fort Calgary and learned about some Alberta history

 The past couple of weeks in Grade 4: -we are learning about decimals and fractions (tenths and hundredths) and developing our understanding through art, games, money, models and picture representations. Counting change at home and talking about tenths and hundredths is a great way for kids to practice at home. -in math we learned about Palindromes and looked for patterns  -we went to Telus Spark and did a shadow program where we wrote a script and created a puppet play, some students also dissected owl pellets, lied on a bed of nails and experienced VR. -we began planning suspense stories and have focused on description, hooks and a strong introduction so far -we are making maps of our own islands that need to include a legend, scale, compass rose, capital city and other landmarks -in Social Studies, we are learning about the regions of Alberta and began exploring resources, vegetation, landforms and wildlife of the Parkland reagion -we did a refraction experiment in science ...

 This week in Grade 4..... -we have been learning about patterns in math and have explore numbers on the calendar and Pascal's triangle -played basketball, Indiana Jones and Monster ball in gym -we learned about 'show, don't tell' when writing and explored how to show emotions (eg. instead of saying 'she was scared' say 'her knees trembled and her heart pounded") -students presented their friendship projects to the class -we painted and sculpted Balsam Poplar trees and continued research about them -we did a book walk of text about Alberta, chose interesting topics and completed 3 tasks about the topic